SNOWBOARDER Vital 20: Nick Dirks

I spent the past six months living with Nick Dirks in Utah, and Nick spent the past six months talking about how much he hated Utah. Nick doesn’t take snowboarding or himself too seriously at all, which is refreshing in the age of the X Games. He drives an ’84 Toyota pickup dubbed the “Coyote Killer” (for good reason), he loves to suplex our neighborhood cat Meatball, and he has a dread-hawk. An overly agitated security guard at the University Hospital in Salt Lake put it pretty well when he said; “Son, you don’t care about anything, do you?” No sir, I don’t believe he does.